If this is Sony’s new PSP phone, it hits the mark exactly. Supposedly it features a widescreen 3-inch (480 x 272) display, PSP functionality via M2 card slot(UMD would be gone), dual-slide design, and a functional gamepad.

Slide it over to one side and there’s a joypad with analog stick for PSP controls. Slide to the other side and a number keyboard will show up. The gaming community is buzzing from some supposedly leaked scans of this possible PSPhone from Stuff magazine, from a few months back. Somehow it escaped everyone’s notice until now since no one reads the damn thing.

A recent patent application filing at the US patent office by Sony Ericsson reveals what looks to be a PSP phone. This does kinda’ make sense since everything is moving toward integrating with a mobile phone lately. Also, it’s been difficult to take a traditional mobile phone and integrate games with it, so why not go the other way around and integrate a phone into an existing mobile game design.

It looks like that’s what Sony Ericsson is up to. The PSP is already designed well …